Baker News

December 10, 2018 Industrial real estate is vanishing in cities across America just as retailers are ramping up their demands for last mile fulfillment. Major players in online retail have gained a larger market share of ...

December 5, 2018 Come 2019, millennials are projected to overtake baby boomers as the nation’s largest generation (Fry, 2018). It is imperative to understand how this shift will drive transformation of the built environment ...

December 4, 2018 America’s once world-class infrastructure is in desperate need of repair. In recent years, bridge collapses and other engineering failures have sparked political debate about how the country’s ...

December 2, 2018 This week, the Baker Program concluded its Distinguished Speaker Series through an insightful conversation with JLL’s Arthur Adler. Art is a distinguished alumnus from the Hotel School and has ...

November 24, 2018 Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google that is working with the city of Toronto in revitalizing 750 acres along the city’s Eastern Waterfront, made headlines this year. Controversy arose when questions ...

November 20, 2018 Foreign real estate investment in major cities throughout the world has increased rapidly in recent years. Investors from the U.S., China, and the Middle East have turned to foreign real estate markets ...

November 15, 2018 In recent years a small renaissance has taken place in North America regarding wood buildings, propelled by the emergence of “mass timber” construction. The increased popularity of mass timber is ...

November 12, 2018 Developers and landlords are faced with a perennial issue: how can they more fully utilize their properties, particularly during lease-up? The period from building completion to stabilization, and any ...

November 12, 2018 On November 8, 2018, the Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate welcomed Bruce Menin, Principal of Crescent Heights, to campus as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series. Crescent Heights is a vertically-integrated ...